Ellen Byerrum is a novelist, playwright, reporter, former Washington D.C. journalist, and a graduate of private investigator school
in Virginia. The Woman in the Dollhouse is her first suspense thriller. It introduces a young woman named Tennyson
Claxton, whose mind seems to hold the memories of two very different women.

Ellen writes the Crime of Fashion
Mysteries, starring that stylish female sleuth Lacey Smithsonian, a reluctant fashion reporter in Washington D.C., "The City
Fashion Forgot." Two of these mysteries, Killer Hair and Hostile Makeover, were filmed for the Lifetime Movie Network. The latest
in the series is Lethal Black Dress.

Her novels, her middle-grade mystery, The Children Didn’t See Anything, and
her spooky Halloween ghost story, The Last Goodbye of Harris Turner, are all available on Amazon.

Lacey Smithsonian looked down at the unfortunate woman in the coffin and thought,
"Oh my God, that is the worst haircut I've ever seen."

And they say you can't die from a bad haircut...

Killer Hair is the book that began the entire Crime of Fashion Mystery series, and launched my stylish sleuth Lacey Smithsonian
on her comic (yet romantic) adventures in crime-solving, couture, and love.

It's also the book that began
my career as a mystery novelist, and I'm proud to present it in a brand-new edition that reflects my original vision for Lacey and
her world.

DESIGNER KNOCKOFF

The Second Crime of Fashion Mystery

If you can't dress up for the United States Senate, what can you dress up
for? Lacey wondered. Apparently not much. Poorly dressed, badly coiffed, regrettably groomed? Ah yes, the journalists...

Designer Knockoff has always been, for me, the heart and soul of my series. This is the book where we first discover what Lacey's
Aunt Mimi (and her trunk full of dusty old dress patterns) means to her, how they inspire her, and how that ancient steamer trunk
leads her into a decades-old mystery -- and helps her find the solution.

Mimi's legacy of heart, soul
and style lives on in Lacey Smithsonian.

HOSTILE MAKEOVER

The Third Crime of Fashion Mystery

Hostile Makeoverwas inspired by the reality TV shows dealing in "extreme
makeovers," from surgical to stylistic.I wondered what might happen when that outer “ugly duckling” becomes a beautiful swan. Might
her soul suffer as radical a transformation? Would the dream of beauty and fame become a nightmare? How would an extreme
makeover change the “lucky” girl and those around her in the celebrity world of high fashion modeling and design, as well as her loved
ones?

And how would Lacey be drawn into solving a mystery in which the inner self and the outer façades of
both victim and killer seem to be at war?

GRAVE APPAREL

The Fifth Crime of Fashion Mystery

Why is Lacey ruining Christmas?!

The holidays are
a season of joy in Our Nation’s Capital, but fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian learns there’s no room at the inn for the hungry and
homeless.

Lacey is tangled up in a scandal called “Sweatergate,”the paper’s food editorison a baking
boycott, everyone seems to be mad at everyone else, and poor Lacey is (unfairly) getting blamed. When the office Grinch is brutally
assaulted with a giant candy cane and a homeless child dressed in a stolen shepherd’s robe is the only witness, Lacey searches the
snowy back alleys of D.C. on a rescue mission to keep a killer from ruining Christmas.

THE WOMAN IN THE DOLLHOUSE

A novel of suspense

What’s in a name? Shakespeare said “a rose by any other name...” What’s in a book
title? I’ve fought publishers for great titles that I’m glad I stuck with. And what about The Dollhouse in the Crawlspace? It might
be my best book so far, and reviewers agree that my new thriller is intense, gripping and affecting, but was that title holding it
back? It might have suggested a creepy horror story like Toys in the Attic, which it definitely is not. I'm very proud of my heroine
Tennyson Claxton and her perilous odyssey to discover who she is and where she belongs in the world. She deserves another chance.
And a new title!

Here it is: The Woman in the Dollhouse. Please join me (and Tennyson) on this journey.

RAIDERS OF THE LOST CORSET

The Fourth Crime of Fashion Mystery

A Romanov princess died in this corset! Whowouldn'tkill
for it? Bloody tales of the execution of the Romanovs and the jewels they’d hidden in their clothinginspired my fourth Lacey Smithsonian
mystery.Some say only three jewel-filled corsets were found on the bodies of the four Romanov princesses. What if the fourth corset
had been stolen? A secret someone took to the grave, and that others would kill or die for? A lost corset full of priceless gems:
the perfect mystery for an intrepid fashion reporter! Whereis it now, a century later? And what ifLacey broke loose from Washington,
D.C., to chase the news story of a lifetime? What if?

My YouTube channel is now LIVE! I'm posting short videos every week, full of my
own useful, fun and sometimes snarky comments and advice. I talk about fashion, style, clothes, books, mysteries and writing
-- and whatever my readers ask me about. Some of these bite-sized videos are based on fashion advice my Crime of Fashion
series protagonist Lacey Smithsonian offers her readers in her "Fashion Bites" columns in The Eye Street Observer. And some are
very different. Subscribe to my channel, and join me on YouTube! Just follow the link above.

THE MASQUE OF THE

RED DRESS

The Eleventh Crime of Fashion Mystery

Who in the world wants that beautiful red dress with the
bad reputation?

Everybody! Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian has never seen such a gown: crimson, flowing, fabulous.
And infamous. The actress who first wore it on stage died in it on the closing night of The Masque of the Red Death -- and she was
playing Death. Burglary, assault and murder now seem to haunt this legendary gown like a ghost.

Who would want it
enough to kill for it? Crazy theatre people? Costume collectors? Russian spies? Spycraft and stagecraft, shadows and deceptions lead
Lacey and the Red Dress into a macabre dance with an assassin -- and a masquerade with death.